These young urchins stepped out of the past and into the present when Calendar news came to film at Elsecar Heritage Railway this week.
The youngsters showed up in period dress at the steam railway, demonstrating their support for a TV poll where viewers can vote for the railway to win £50,000 funding.
Voting will take place on Monday when the televised poll will be on ITVs Calendar programme at 6pm. The number people will need to call in order to cast their votes will be published in the Daily Mirror on the same day.
At the filming camera crews honed in on what appeared to be a little smudge-faced miner and his waiting maid companion. Other schoolchildren, including year one pupils from Hoyland Common primary school, also turned out in the nippy conditions to watch the filming and the spectacle of the chugging steam train.
The school said they enjoyed it and had not minded the cold as they were 'well dressed up'.
Elsecar Heritage Railway has been campaigning for funding so it can complete its line to Cortonwood and put up a station and create a memorial park there.
The group hopes to win funding via votes in Monday's TV poll 'The People's Millions,' a partnership between Big Lottery Fund and ITV, where the public help decide which local community projects get up to £50,000.
